Computing systems have been under increasingly sophisticated attack over the Internet and by using dial-up access ports. One form of attack is eavesdropping on network connections to obtain login id's and passwords of legitimate users. This information is used at a later time to attack

In the near future, dial-up connections will still be one of the most popular methods of remote access to the Internet as well as to enterprise networks. The dimensioning of modem pools to support this type of access is of particular importance to commercial Internet service providers (ISPs

Weak connectivity, in the form of intermittent, low-bandwidth, or expensive networks is a fact of life in mobile computing. In this paper, we describe how the Coda File System has evolved to exploit such networks. The underlying theme of this evolution has been the systematic introduction

results of running the system on an unprotected cable modem connection for 24 hours. The system successfully created precise traffic signatures that otherwise would have required the skills and time of a security officer to inspect the traffic manually.

in substitution from legacy dial-up to frontier broadband internet access in New Zealand occurring at a higher user valuation of both internet connection and usage than if the telephony tariff was set at a level whereby the fixed component recovered fixed costs and the variable usage

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cable modems rather than traditional dial-up modems. By examining this site we are able to evaluate the effects that cable modems have on proxy workloads. This paper focuses on workload characteristics such as file type distribution, file size distribution, file referencing behaviour and turnover

protocol domains to share common access infrastructure including modems, Access Servers, and ISDN routers. Previous RFCs have specified protocols for supporting IP dial-up via SLIP [1] and multiprotocol dial-up via PPP [2]. This document describes the Layer Two Forwarding protocol (L2F) which permits

modem lines to powerful servers connected to the Internet through high-bandwidth lines. In this paper, we address the problem of load balancing in such P2P systems. We explore the space of designing load-balancing algorithms that uses the notion of “virtual servers”. We present three schemes that differ

We examine a policy for managing modem pools that disconnects users only if not enough modems are available for other users to connect. Managing the modem pool then becomes a replacement problem, similar to buffer cache management (e.g., in virtual memory systems) . When a new connection request